Guillaume Verdon
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first heard Dec 2023
last heard Dec 2023
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You know, attacking or monopolizing or co-opting any one point in that chain, you kind of capture the space. And so what I'm trying to do is sort of explode the variance of possible ways to do AI and hardware. by fundamentally reimagining how you embed AI algorithms into the physical world. And in general, by the way, I dislike the term AGI, artificial general intelligence.
I think it's very anthropocentric that we call human-like or human-level AI artificial general intelligence, right? I've spent my career so far exploring notions of intelligence that no biological brain could achieve, right?
quantum form of intelligence right grokking systems that have multi-partite quantum entanglement that you can provably not represent efficiently on a classical computer a classical deep learning representation and hence any sort of biological brain and so already, you know, I've spent my career sort of exploring the wider space of intelligences.
And I think that space of intelligence inspired by physics rather than the human brain is very large. And I think we're going through a moment right now similar to When we went from geocentrism to heliocentrism, right? But for intelligence, we realized that human intelligence is just a point in a very large space of potential intelligences. And it's both... humbling for humanity.
It's a bit scary that we're not at the center of the space, but we made that realization for astronomy and we've survived and we've achieved technologies by indexing to reality. We've achieved technologies that ensure our well-being. For example, we have satellites monitoring solar flares that give us a warning. And so similarly, I think by
letting go of this anthropomorphic, anthropocentric anchor for AI, we'll be able to explore the wider space of intelligences that can really be a massive benefit to our well-being and the advancement of civilization.
I think there's a lot of beauty in the universe, right? I think life itself, civilization, this homo, techno, capital, mimetic machine that we all live in, right? So you have humans, technology, capital, memes. Everything is coupled to one another. Everything induces selective pressure on one another. And it's a beautiful machine that has created us, has created us.
the technology we're using to speak today to the audience, capture our speech here, the technology we use to augment ourselves every day, we have our phones. I think the system is beautiful and the principle that induces this sort of adaptability and convergence on optimal technologies, ideas, and so on, it's a beautiful principle that we're part of. And I think
part of EAC is to appreciate this principle in a way that's not just centered on humanity but kind of broader. Appreciate life, the preciousness of consciousness in our universe. And because we cherish this beautiful state of matter we're in, we've got to feel a responsibility to scale it in order to preserve it because the options are to grow or die.
So during my career, I had a moment where I realized that maybe we need to offload to machines to truly understand the universe around us, right? Instead of just having humans with pen and paper solve it all. And to me, that sort of process of letting go of a bit of agency gave us way more leverage to understand the world around us.
A quantum computer is much better than a human to understand matter at the nanoscale. Similarly, I think that humanity has a choice. Do we accept the opportunity to have intellectual and operational leverage that AI will unlock and thus ensure that we're taking along this path of growth and scope and scale of civilization? We may dilute ourselves, right?
There might be a lot of workers that are AI, but Overall, out of our own self-interest, by combining and augmenting ourselves with AI, we're going to achieve much higher growth and much more prosperity, right? To me, I think that the most likely future is one where Humans augment themselves with AI. I think we're already on this path to augmentation. We have phones we use for communication.
We have on ourselves at all times. We have wearables soon that have shared perception with us, right? Like the human AI pin or, I mean, technically your Tesla car has shared perception. And so if you have shared experience, shared context, you communicate with one another better. and you have some sort of IO, really, it's an extension of yourself.
And to me, I think that humanity augmenting itself with AI and having AI that is not anchored to anything biological. Both will coexist. And the way to align the parties, we already have a sort of mechanism to align super intelligences that are made of humans and technology, right? Companies are sort of
large mixture of expert models where we have neural routing of tasks within a company and we have ways of economic exchange to align these behemoths. And to me, I think capitalism is the way. And I do think that whatever configuration of matter or information leads to maximal growth will be where we converge, just from physical principles.
And so we can either align ourselves to that reality and join the acceleration up in scope and scale of civilization, Or we can get left behind and try to decelerate and move back in the forest, let go of technology, and return to our primitive state. And those are the two paths forward, at least to me.
I do think that we're actually inducing an evolutionary process on the space of AIs through the market, right? Right now, we run AIs that have positive utility to humans. And that induces a selective pressure if you consider a neural net being alive when there's an API running instances of it on GPUs, right? and which APIs get run, the ones that have high utility to us.
So similar to how we domesticated wolves and turned them into dogs that are very clear in their expression, they're very aligned, I think there's going to be an opportunity to steer AI and achieve highly aligned AI. And I think that Humans plus AI is a very powerful combination, and it's not clear to me that pure AI would select out that combination.
Yes. Right? By augmenting ourselves with AI is unimaginable right now. The opportunity cost... We're at a fork in the road, right?
Whether we take the path of creating these technologies, augment ourselves, and get to climb up the Kardashev scale, become multi-planetary with the aid of AI, or we have a hard cutoff of, like, we don't birth these technologies at all, and then we leave all the potential upside on the table, right? And to me...
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